The Deliberate Duchenne Smile: Individual Differences in Expressive Control reports on one’s capacity to willfully generate Duchenne smiles and distinct differences in this ability, based on gender. The methodology carried out by Gunnery et al. evaluated participants involved in a role- play task, “designed to measure quasi-naturalistic usage of the deliberate Duchenne smile, and an imitation task, designed to measure muscular capability” (Gunnery et al, 2012). In the role-play tasks, partakers were instructed to smile while presenting scripted scenarios, three scenarios representing faked positive affect and three scenarios representing genuine positive affect. The literature notes that during the imitation tasks, the test partakers were …show more content…
Introduction:
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Expressive control, one’s ability to maintain his or her character during everyday life, is often evaluated in a sociological sense. In understanding human behavior, psychologists carry out research that seeks to reveal the origins of many behaviors- verbal, nonverbal, passive, active, constructive, destructive, etc. The Deliberate Duchenne Smile: Individual Differences in
Expressive Control is an empirical study that evaluated the premeditated Duchenne smile, using a research architype in which test subjects were instructed to smile in role-play scenarios to convey different social messages, as well as replicate photographed Duchenne smiles (Gunnery et al, 2012).
The operational definition for the term “Duchenne smile” as delineated by the literature is, “the activation of the orbicularis oculi (cheek raiser) muscle that makes crow’s feet at the outer corner of the eye, called Action Unit 6 (AU 6) according to the Facial Action Coding
System (FACS; Ekman et al. 2002).” The Duchenne smile is an natural response to a coexisting positive effect. In contrast, Ekman et al., 1990 and Frank et al., 1993 notes that the non-
Duchenne smile, often called a non-enjoyment, false, fake, or social smile, is characterize